başlıca
adjective B2- primary, main · Bu senin başlıca sorunun., This is your main problem.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in başlıcam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: başlıcasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: başlıcasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: başlıcasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: başlıcasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Bu kararın başlıca gerekçelerinden biri, Arapça için geliştirilmiş eski yazının Türkçenin ses yapısına pek uymamasıydı.
One of the main reasons for this decision was that the old script, developed for Arabic, did not fit the sound system of Turkish well.
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